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AAARI / AAHEC
2006 Annual Banquet
Date: Thursday, October
26, 2006
Time: 6PM to 9PM
Place: Gala Manor
Banquet Hall
37-02 Main St. (Entrance on
37th Avenue), Flushing, NY
11354
Directions to
Restaurant
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Parking Lot
Biographies
Nehru E. Cherukupalli
(a.k.a. C.E. Nehru) is Professor of Geology at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He hails
from South India, had his
schooling in Madras, India,
and earned a Ph.D. in
geology from Madras
University. He also has a
Master’s degree from
Columbia University, New
York. He has been teaching
at Brooklyn College, City
University of New York for
over four decades and has
been the past Chairman of
the Geology Department. He
has field experience in many
places in India and in the
United States and Canada. He
has worked in mining
operations in copper and
iron ore mines in India. He
has also worked on Moon
rocks and he works on
Meteorites and is a Research
Associate at the American
Museum of Natural History in
New York. He has
considerable experience in
teaching all levels of
students at Brooklyn College
and at the Graduate Center
of the City University of
New York. Prof. Nehru has
authored more than a hundred
research papers in geology.
He is also interested in
environmental geology and
teacher education. He has
taught geology to ESL
(English as Second Language)
students and published on
this subject. More recently
he has taken part in the
CUNY Chancellor’s relief
efforts of the victims of
the December 2004 Tsunami of
South Asia. In November 2005
he Chaired the Tsunami
session held by Association
of Exploration Geophysicists
in Poona, India. Since June
2006, he has taken on the
responsibility as the
Interim Executive Director
of Asian American/ Asian
Research Institute (AAARI)
in New York.
Loretta Chin
is currently a Research
Coordinator for the U.S.
Department of Education
Ready to Learn Partnership
grant, in the Brooklyn
College Children’s Studies
Program and Center.
Initially, she was invited
by the Director of the
center, Prof. Gertrud Lenzer,
to join Children’s Studies
as the Conference Manager
for the Carnegie Corporation
grant funded policy
symposium entitled,
“Children and the Law in New
York,” held on March 11,
2004. The symposium led to
legislation in the New York
State Assembly and the New
York State Senate to
establish an Office of the
Child Advocate for New
York. It is currently in
the New York State Senate
under Bill S6877A.
She started her career at
Brooklyn College in 1990, in
the Division of Student
Life, where she worked
closely with administration
and with students on
numerous Community Building
Initiative projects: The
Making a Difference
Dinner/Dance; the Campus
Beautification Project; the
BC Circles Facilitator
Dialogue Series, Human
Rights Week, the Student
Campus Information and
Participation Program; and
the Asian Outreach Project,
which helped lead to the
establishment of an Asian
Studies Minor at Brooklyn
College in the Spring 2006
semester.
Matthew Goldstein
was appointed Chancellor of
the City University of New
York, effective September 1,
1999. He is the first CUNY
graduate to lead the
nation’s most prominent
urban public university
(City College, Class of
1963).
Dr. Goldstein has served in
senior academic and
administrative positions for
more than twenty years,
including as President of
Baruch College, President of
the Research Foundation, and
Acting Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs of CUNY.
Prior to being named
Chancellor, he was President
of Adelphi University.
Jay Hershenson
is Secretary of the Board of
Trustees and Vice Chancellor
for University Relations of
The City University of New
York -- the leading public
urban university system in
the nation. His portfolio
includes the development and
implementation of CUNY's
external relations program,
including governmental,
media and community
relations, and the
administration of the Board
of Trustees' agenda. He has
worked in senior level
administrative positions for
six CUNY Chancellors since
the mid-1970's and with over
100 CUNY trustees. He has
made a lifelong commitment
to education and, in
particular, to the use of
higher education to
positively transform lives.
He received an M.A. in Urban
Studies and a B.A. in
Communications, Arts and
Sciences and University
Administration from Queens
College, CUNY, after
transferring from
Queensborough Community
College, CUNY. He is a
former Vice Chairperson of
the Anti-Defamation League
Regional New York Board and
current Board member. He
served as a member of the
United Negro College Fund
Scholarship Committee and
the Board of Directors of
the Council of Churches. He
was Padrino Duartiano
Internacional of the Bronx
Dominican Parade the past
two years and is the 2005
Grand Marshall for
Education.
Hiroko Karan
received her Ph.D. in
Organic Chemistry from Brown
University. After
postdoctoral positions at
Fels Research Institute at
Temple University Medical
School and the Biophysics
Laboratory at New York
University, she joined the
faculty of chemistry at
Medgar Evers College, City
University of New York in
1980. Professor of
Chemistry, she has served as
Chairperson of the
Department of Physical and
Computer Sciences, Assistant
Dean and Dean of the School
of Science, Health and
Technology for the past
twelve years and since
September, 2004, she is
serving as Executive
Director of Office of
Research and Sponsored
Programs (ORSP). Her Office
serves as the central
research office for the
College, assisting the
faculty and staff in
obtaining external funds by
providing pre- and post-
award services and the
College community to
increase external funds and
resources for research.
For the past fifteen years,
Dr. Karan has engaged in
research on enzyme
biosensors containing
polymeric electron transfer
systems and has published,
presented and lectured
extensively in the area. A
recipient of research
grants, she has been serving
as a consultant for National
Institutes of Health. as a
proposal reviewer. An
educator, she has been an
advocate for women and
minorities in science and
has mentored many students
during her tenure at Medgar
Evers College, many of whom
have pursued careers in
Science, Medicine and other
Health Related Professions
and actively serve the
community. She established
the Health Science Research
Assistance Center (HSRAC) in
the School of Science,
Health and Technology in
1997 supported by the
Extramural Associates
Research Development Award
funded by National Institute
of Child Health and Human
Development to encourage,
assist and enhance faculty
research in the areas of
biomedical, natural,
environmental and behavioral
sciences and obtaining
external funds.
Dr. Karan is an active
participating member of many
professional organizations.
She serves as a board
member, officer and elected
councilor of New York
Section of the American
Chemical Society and the
Association for Women in
Science. In 2002, She was
appointed as a Committee
Associate of the Joint Board
Council Committee on
Minority Affairs of the
American Chemical Society.
She was recognized for her
outstanding services by the
New York Section of American
Chemical Society, as an
outstanding women scientist
by the Association for Women
in Science, New York
Metropolitan Chapter, as a
Brooklyn Women of Essence
for her contribution in
Science Education by the
Consolidated Edison Women
History Month Program. She
is also a co-founder of
Medgar Evers College Annual
Environmental Issues
Conference which had
celebrated its 11th
annual conference in March
2006.
Vivian Lee
joined the WNBC NewsChannel
4 team in August 2002. As a
general assignment reporter,
Lee’s work has taken her
from examining the financial
district's economic
prospects post-9-11, to
investigating affordable
housing contracts to
landlords in the city's
notorious Single Resident
Occupancy buildings on the
West Side; from explorations
of the impact of the
terrorist attacks on ethnic
Arab and Muslim communities
through domestic
anti-terrorism measures, to
examining the Korean
American community's
wide-ranging opinions on
continuing tension between
North and South Korea and
relations between both
countries with the U.S.
Ms. Lee graduated from Carleton
University in Ottawa with a
Bachelor's degree in
Journalism, and a minor in
the Russian Language.
A devoted youth mentor and
volunteer, Lee currently
tutors fourth graders in
English and Math at PS 1 in
Chinatown. When she's not
running on the ground, she
tries to spend as much of
her time as possible in the
air -- flying with the
Trapeze School of New York.
David Ng was
appointed Executive Editor
of the New York Daily News
in June 9, 2006. In
his new position, Ng becomes
one of the highest ranking
Asian Americans at a major
metropolitan newspaper.
In 2000, Ng joined The
Star-Ledger in Newark, New
Jersey, as the paper's
assistant managing
editor/production, where he
oversaw Page One and was
responsible for the paper
meeting its press deadlines.
He worked for the Daily News
from 1993-2000 as a deputy
news editor, metropolitan
editor, and deputy managing
editor in charge of news.
Before that he spent 13
years at the New York Post
as a general assignment
reporter, rewrite editor,
education writer, day city
editor and associate
managing editor.
Ng is a graduate of the
2004-2005 AAJA/New York
Times Mentor Program, a
year-long program for
mid-career journalists
considering a transition to
the business side of the
industry. A 1996 graduate of
AAJA's Executive Leadership
Program (ELP), he has
returned to serve as
speaker, co-chair the
program's 10th anniversary
retreat, and offer his
support to other Asian
Americans pursuing news
management. He was awarded
the ELP Outstanding
Leadership Award in 2000.
Betty Lee Sung
is Professor Emerita and
Chairperson of Asian
American/ Asian Research
Institute. She is the former
Chairperson of Asian
American Studies Department
at City College, CUNY.
Professor Sung has published
innumerable articles and
seven books on Chinese
Americans including Mountain
of Gold (1967), and Chinese
American Manpower and
Employment , which won an
outstanding book of the year
award for 1976.
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